Nice edges in painted stuff
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 15:59
I'm used to doing digital painting mixing the character to the background (aren't separated).
How studios like Vanillaware (Odin Sphere, Muramasa The Demon Blade) make your digital painted graphics with the edges avoiding problems of transparency with the background like this one:
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but:
To have clean edges that blend well with any background, you want to create your images/sprites with an Alpha Transparency channel. The image format PNG supports this alpha channel and is used often in games. Most modern art tools (like GIMP) let you create images this way.